In a trance, the Mid-Autumn Festival has already passed.
I still remember how I felt when I left work that night, very excited, although the work was not yet done, but my heart was already anxious.
The manuscript was changed over and over again, and my colleague, Ms., could always check some problems, and she saw me in a hurry, so she said to me, "You can go home if you want to go back and revise again, and it's not going to be used right now anyway!"
Surprisingly, I was embarrassed and said it was fine, I should be able to get it done, but in the end it wasn't done, and I slipped away happily anyway.
Going out on the subway, there were lines everywhere I went. On the subway, I saw so many people with big bags of luggage, are they going home to their families?
I couldn't help but send a message to our family's microblogging group, no one answered me, so I sent a video to my mom. When I picked up the video, it was just my mom and my dad at home.
My dad was still lying on his "turf", looking at his cell phone, playing chess, and reading novels; my mom was swiping on snapchat to kill the boredom.
When I video chat with her, she asks me new questions. I also ask how the family is doing, and my mom always says it's all good. On the subway, it was noisy, but talked for a long time. I hung up the video when I was about to get off the train.
Life
The lights are on, but none of the kids are around.
Reunion days are still spent looking back and thinking about each other from different places.
The moment I saw that my parents were the only two people in the house, it was suddenly quite hard for me. I went so far as to ask myself why I had to run so far away and leave the two of them at home.
That was the first time I blamed myself and felt sad because I came to a place so far away from home. There is a saying that parents don't travel far from home, but I fought tooth and nail to get out.
In order to go outside, in order to go to see the so-called outside world in my heart, I even gambled with my parents and ignored their obstruction, that is, I must go out, I must go outside to see my own flowery world.
At that moment, I saw my parents guarding a whole empty yard, the house was brightly lit, but only their thin figures.
I was in the subway with tears in my eyes, not even daring to think about the many days and nights they spent alone, not daring to think about how they would miss their children when they were alone.
Parents
As I grow up, I slowly feel that the relationship between parents and children is like a circle.
The parents are the center of the circle and their children are the boundaries of their lives. The center of the circle is always there, but the boundary keeps expanding outward.
Which is faster, the speed at which our parents age or the speed at which we grow up, seems to have no answer with me.
All I know is that the speed at which my parents are aging makes it hard for them to move the center of their circle and see their boundaries anymore.
We children are growing faster and faster while they are slowing down, and it's hard for them to keep up with us, so much so that we outgrow their lives, until one day we will no longer be visible in their lives, and we will be the only ones to see their aging faces and wrinkled hearts.
Fireworks
It was nearly ten o'clock when I got back to the house that night.
The whole neighborhood wasn't any different, the square dance was nearing its end, the runners were sweating, and many children were playing and chasing in the square with strings of laughter.
The only difference was that there was a movie playing in the square that night, with a large projector hanging down from that wall, and the characters in the movie immediately came to life.
Many old people with small children were sitting there with small benches, ready to watch this open-air movie on the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival.
This is their life, this is their prelude to the Mid-Autumn Festival.
I watched it twice and went back to the house.
This night, there was no need to prepare anything for cooking the next day, so after washing up and swiping my phone for a while I went to sleep.